Xyrin Empire

Chapter 49: Aliya

At this moment, a weird pure-black car that did not have any markings slowly entered Nanfu Street. Within the car sat a few sinister-looking men.

A man with a slightly slender face broke the silence as he said to the bald man sitting opposite him. “Boss, are we a little too reckless this time? Regardless, a princess lives there; there would definitely be many secret bodyguards about. What if we executed our plan and were found out?”

The bald man’s hoarse voice rang out, “Stop worrying. The Ding Family has guaranteed that this princess doesn’t know what’s good for her and has chased away all her security personnel. Not even the plainclothes bodyguard that the government had arranged are around anymore; no one nearby can rescue that lad.

“As long as we are careful, who can guess that it was us? Furthermore, even if we were found out, we could also use that silly Young Master Liu as our scapegoat. At that time, with the Ding Family backing us, we will stay in prison for a few years at most; once we are released, we will become millionaires!”

At this time, a bird-eyed man next to the bald man also chuckled and said, “Boss, speaking of that princess, she is really beautiful. Since there are no bodyguards around and we are already taking this step, why don’t we…?”

“Don’t even think about it!” The bald man chided in a low voice, “Old Dao, this is not a joking matter! If we scared the princess, the Ding Family could still help us; if you did something as perverse as that, the ones that would come to look for you would be the military and not the police!”

“Yes, yes…” After being scolded by the bald man, Old Dao immediately said apologetically, “I have this bad habit of mine; boss, don’t take it seriously, I was just joking…”

“However—” The bald man’s tone changed as he revealed a strange smile, “While we cannot touch that princess, that lad has a beautiful Big Sister; she is also renowned for her beauty. We can actually have fun with her—hehe!”

“I’m not that interested in that Big Sister, actually,” The man with the skinny face said perversely as he smiled, “I have heard that the lad has a little sister that is only twelve or thirteen. She is rather pretty as well and is blind; that would be interesting!”

The bird-eyed man immediately laughed and scolded, “Only you have this predilection for young girls; however, having a change in taste is not a bad idea, hehe…”

The three laughed softly as if already starting to fantasize about the unspeakable things were about to happen soon.

…

I naturally didn’t know about any of these things that were happening. At this point, the few of us were driving at our fastest to the nearest unfinished building estate.

A white shadow cut through the deserted street. Due to some force-field at work, this high-speed driving had not caused a single sound; it was just like a ghost car.

Within the black car parked at the roadside, a young man rubbed his eyes as he looked at the young master across him and asked, “Young Master Liu, what car was that just now? It was so fast and didn’t even emit a single sound!”

Sitting next to him was actually Liu Zicai!

“I think you were seeing things. Sigh, I really wonder if the bald man and his companions are up to this or not. Although they were sent by the Ding Family, I am still feeling rather uneasy for some reason…”

“Young Master Liu!” One young man sitting in the backseat suddenly cried out as he scared Liu Zicai and the other person badly.

“What’s wrong with you?! Are you insane?!” Liu Zicai chided.

That man’s hands were both shaking as he passed his phone to Liu Zicai. He stuttered as he said, “Young Master Liu, I was bored just now and had used my phone to take pictures; as a result…”

Liu Zicai took over that man’s phone, took a look, and immediately sucked in a cold breath. The phone had captured a gray car speeding by. As this phone was a rather new and advanced one—even though it was nighttime and the car had been driving very quickly, the image that had been captured was not that blurry. Liu Zicai could clearly see that no one was driving that car!

Thinking that the car just now had not even emitted a sound, Liu Zicai’s hairs on his body immediately stood up!

“Young Master Liu, have we seen a ghost?” The young man that had taken the picture said as his face grew pale.

“Don’t, don’t utter nonsense! Something must be wrong with your phone.” As Liu Zicai said so, he tossed the phone speedily back to its owner as if having touched something unclean. “Drive… drive now! There’s something weird going on here!”

At this time, we also finally reached the place Aliya’s signal had originated from.

‘Royal Garden’ was this estate’s—that was still under construction—original name. If this estate could be completed, it would be the entire District K’s biggest and most upscale estate. Unfortunately, a sudden calamity had befallen the developer. During a banquet, he had drank too much and dizzily entered the female toilet instead. After being thrown out, his head had struck the wall; and on the way to the hospital, he had met with a car accident. (Sigh, how complicated his death had been.) This entire construction project had also become the biggest unfinished building estate in District K.

We stopped the car in a secluded area as we then walked into this dark and eerie construction area.

There was no light here; only the reflections from the street lights and the illumination from the fireworks far away provided the bare-minimum visibility. The surrounding construction’s mottled and roughly-built cement walls and crisscrossing concrete iron overhead made us feel as if we had just walked into the ruins of a city that had just experienced a siege.

As there wasn’t much light, the cement pillars and concrete iron bars seemed to merge with the darkness. The black outlines of these structures stacked over one another, looking rather ominous and ghastly. No wonder so many ghost stories had originated from this place.

“Aliya, you can come out now.” I used my spiritual connection to speak.

A gust of wind could be heard from above us. After that, I saw a pure white shadow floating about as a warm and comforting feeling accompanied this white light and entered my heart.

I raised my head and was stunned.

A silver-haired and golden-eyed young lady was sitting on a crossbeam tens of meters above ground in front. She wore a white, sleeveless long dress adorned with golden flecks. Below her long dress, two pure-white feet could be seen dangling in the air. A special white halo expanded from this young girl, making everything in a one-hundred meters radius visible. Within this halo, this lady’s face could not be seen directly. However, I could clearly ‘see’ that she was a pure, sacred, seemingly accidentally descended goddess.

Behind this young girl, a huge pair of pure-white wings slowly extended.

In the dark of the night—in the ruins, there was an angel. This sight was so beautiful it was rather suffocating.

“An angel!” I cried out.

Hearing my voice, that angelic young girl immediately revealed a joyous smile. Her wings flapped as she soared into the sky and formed a beautiful light arc as she then gracefully landed in front of me.

“An, an… angel!” I really did not know how best to respond. That Aliya was actually an angel was really not something I had expected. As such, I could only stutter and try to form this word.

I was almost certain that long, long ago; a Xyrin Apostle must have come to Earth and had ruled this world like a god. If not, how could the Xyrin Apostles be so similar to human myths and legends?!

I also finally thought of what Pandora had said to me before. The Xyrin Empire’s technology was not just ‘technology’ in the sense humans knew it; it combined magic and mystical energy with alchemy and science as they all congealed into a powerful technology. Now, even something like an angel—which had nothing to do science—had appeared. Besides believing in Pandora’s words, I had no other choice.

“Are you very surprised?” Sandora’s voice snapped me out of my thoughts. I turned and saw that she had a mischievous smile on her face.

“You knew about this long ago? Why did you not tell me sooner, so that I could be mentally prepared?!”

“Wouldn’t that be rather boring? While spending time with these carbon-based beings, I am the only one getting surprised day in and day out; now, it’s your turn to be surprised.”

…What logic was this?

As she started to think there was no point in teasing me further, Sandora finally grew serious as she said, “Alright, I’ll tell you more about Xyrin Apostles such as Aliya now. As you know, the Xyrin Empire’s technology is a blend of magic and science; it can be roughly split into two forms. One form represents a mysterious and unknown magical energy while another represents the energy from rationality and known technology.

“Most Xyrin Apostles are formed from a combination of these two types—me, for example. Other Xyrin Apostles are actually an extreme representation of these two energies; one such extremity is this young girl in front of you. Aliya embodies the mysterious and unknown energy.

If my guess is correct, your other two world arbitration organs should be a pure technology energy type and a fused energy type respectively. Of course, this is only my conjecture; your connection with your own home-star is really too weak; I can’t help you find this out.”

At this time, the angel Aliya that had been watching us talk curiously suddenly spoke. Its voice was completely not human-like at all. This voice seemed to have an ethereal component to it that made it sound extremely melodious and divine. “Aliya is awaiting your commands, Lord.”

I noticed that Aliya was not that similar to other Xyrin Apostles. She did not call me ‘Emperor’, but Lord; this made me rather curious.

“It is a personal preference, I think.” Hearing my query, Sandora waved and said flippantly. She said, “To us, the only reliable thing we can trust is the spiritual level permissions and authority; names and honorifics are not that important. As long as they are not too ridiculous, most things are acceptable. If not, why would Pandora call you ‘Big Brother’?”

So that was the reason. It seemed as if I was still used to trying to measure up these Xyrin Apostles using human logic and thinking.

Seeing Aliya waiting for me to give an instruction, I finally blurted out my query, “Aliya, why have you suddenly come to Earth?”